Missionaries

Pedestrians going about their business during the afternoon and evening March 26 in Manhattan were politely stopped outside St. Patrick's Cathedral by volunteer sidewalk missionaries who had a message to share: It was Reconciliaton Monday across the archdiocese, and confessions were being offered ...

Buchanan, Grand Bassa County – The founder of the Annie T. Doe Memorial Foundation (ATDMF), Mrs. Saya Doe Sio, along with her husband, Francis K. Sio, a board member and a guest was joined by four white American Christian missionaries, who showed the love of Jesus Christ to kids in Buchanan ...

After the eight days, the missionaries were evacuated, leaving the Caribbean island without full-time missionaries representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two-plus months. Eventually, missionaries have started trickling back — 14 in mid-December, 16 in late January and another 24 ...

The 188 young missionaries in the Australia Melbourne Mission came to a special conference with Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles with a question in their heart. “In preparation for Elder Andersen's visit, we invited our missionaries to prayerfully come with questions that they ...

POCATELLO — More people are gaining access to historical records about their ancestors thanks to the efforts of missionaries and other volunteers at The Church of Jesus Christ ... While they work their full time, other missionaries and volunteers also spend several hours a week there assisting in the work.

“They gave their lives and family for over 30 years proclaiming the gospel, planting churches, and training pastors and missionaries across Sub-Saharan Africa,” said IMB President David Platt. “They did all of this with a zeal for God's name, a confidence in God's Word, and a dependence on God's Spirit.

RICHMOND, Virginia—International Mission Board missionaries Dr. Randy Arnett, 62, and Kathy Arnett, 61, died March 14, 2018, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Missouri-native missionaries served as theological education strategists for ...

In this painting created and provided by JR Johansen is Elder Peter Maughan, a missionary who died while serving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A northern Utah artist is painting portraits of Mormon missionaries who died while serving and sending them to their parents in a project aimed ...

Mormon Missionaries Go Global With Help From Online Campaign. Mormon missionaries are doing more proselytizing online than ever, including 600 missionaries assigned to 20 visitor centers around the world who spend their days chatting with prospective converts online. March 12, 2018, at 8:50 a.m.. Mormon ...

A Christian missionary couple gave violent, Bible-inspired beatings to their three adopted children, and they were sentenced to less than three years in jail. Prosecutors say James and Paige Nachtigal, Kansas residents who adopted the kids while they served as missionaries in Peru, brutally beat them in ...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (BP)—Tom Daniel and Clarke Skelton, along with their families, spent a combined 40 years as Southern Baptist missionaries serving in South Korea. The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang gave them a chance for a reunion in the country they both love immensely. Daniel, who is ...

(WICHITA, Kan.) — A Kansas missionary couple has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for giving brutal, religion-inspired beatings to two of the three children they adopted from Peru. James and Paige Nachtigal, of North Newton, were sentenced Thursday for several child abuse ...

Nightingale, who tries to take a mission trip once per year, has also worked in Portugal and Moldova. “I come from a family of missionaries,” Nightingale said. “My uncle is a missionary in South Africa, my brother has cruised all over the world to do mission builds and my father is a pastor to missionaries.

On Thursday, the church presented a new initiative, operated through social media, called Global Online Teaching. With help from sister missionaries at 20 visitors centers around the globe, the goal of Global Online Teaching is to answer questions and teach people who contact the church with questions.

"For the missionaries … they've had people coming up to them (asking), 'Tell us about what you believe. Tell us about the Book of Mormon. Can we have a copy of the Book of Mormon?'" said LDS Public Affairs director Chris Stuart in the article. Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Siobhan ...

Despite her family's religious convictions, Sister Lu spent her teenage years questioning her life's purpose. She sought guidance from a Buddhist monk, but was left feeling disconnected and lost. It wasn't until a couple of Mormon missionaries approached her in the street that Sister Lu discovered her faith ...

Tim and Sandy Ravan, missionaries to the Middle East, will speak at Harvest Outreach Christian Center on Sunday, March 11. Submitted photo ... The Ravans have been missionaries in the Middle East, sharing the Gospel with Jewish and Muslim people for the past seven years. They also work in training ...

From the time of Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit missions of the 16th century, missionaries have played an important role in Chinese history. By the 19th century, the missionary promised both new forms of educational and hygienic modernity while also being seen by the people as a possible threat to the established order in ...

Omar Loza accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior in his home country of Peru, and then he shared the gospel with his friends and family. A few years after reading that God wants believers to take the gospel to the ends of the earth, he visited an Andean town.

The two missionaries came to the Triqui people group in Oaxaca several years ago. Because of restrictions on sharing religious beliefs, they had to be accepted by the community before sharing the Gospel. Christian Aid's co-Director for Latin America, Luis Janeiro, explains it takes around seven years to be ...

Omar's wife Tia said she also has known she wanted to make Christ known to others since she surrendered her own life to the Lord's leadership. The Lozas of La Respuesta-Highview Baptist Church in Louisville plan to serve God in the Americas. They are among 20 new full-time, fully funded missionaries ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Four Mormon missionaries and the man driving the vehicle they were in suffered injuries in a collision with a truck on Monday night in Spain, an LDS Church spokesman said Tuesday. The man, whom the missionaries had been teaching, is in serious condition, as are Elder Mason ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that four missionaries serving in the Spain Malaga Mission were injured in a collision with a truck Monday evening, February 26. The missionaries were riding in a vehicle driven by a man they had been teaching, said church spokesperson Daniel ...

Religious groups gathered in large numbers at the Winter Olympic Games in Gangneung and Pyeongchang, South Korea to take advantage of the golden opportunity at hand. It's estimated that over three thousand missionaries from varying countries were in attendance, who reached out to the multitude of ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Four missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are recovering after a truck crash in Spain. According to the LDS church, four missionaries serving in the Spain Malaga Mission were injured in a crash Feb. 26. They were riding in a man's car they had been teaching, ...

Four Mormon missionaries, including two from Utah, and their driver were injured in a collision Monday evening in Spain. Caden K. Randall, 18, of Kaysville, and Hunter J. ... The crash occurred when the vehicle carrying the missionaries collided with a truck, the release said. The vehicle's driver, whom the ...

"We had an amazing amount of seeds that were planted, especially in closed countries," Skelton said. "And our Korean brothers and sisters got behind it and saw what you could do. It was a bonding experience, not only for us as missionaries but for our Korean brothers and sisters. It was the beginning, ...

Here's something you don't see every day: five grown men, dressed as Mormon missionaries (cycling helmets and backpacks included), raising all manner of unholy hell onstage through the medium of riotous punk rock. Yet that is what you get if you go see L.A. punks The Mormons at one of their fairly ...

HUALIEN, Taiwan — All Mormon missionaries are safe and accounted for following a powerful earthquake in Taiwan on Feb. 6 that killed at least eight and injured hundreds more. Meanwhile, Church officials were still working at press time to gather information on the status of local Latter-day Saints and ...

Eder Dallin Belmap says goodbye as families drop off their loved ones at the Missionary Training Center in Provo on July 26, 2017. Over 700 missionaries were dropped off that day to go to separate parts of the world and help spread the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Sammy Jo ...

Christian missionaries began preaching in significant numbers in China from the 16th century and deepened their presence here as European colonial powers expanded their interests in China during the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty. By the late 1800s, many missionaries were capturing everyday life in China ...

Beyond faith, Christian missionaries' motivations can vary widely, in part because they come from diverse denominations. Mormons, Pentecostals, evangelicals, Baptists, and Catholics all do mission work. The work is particularly central to Mormonism, which encourages observation of the scriptural ...

Woodruff said the missionaries from Utah both sustained minor injuries. The other two missionaries, Elder Mason T. Heninger, 20 from Cardston, Canada, and Elder Gabriel E. Inesta Olmo, 19 from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, were seriously injured. Woodruff said they required surgery. The four missionaries are ...